Fact Check 13: The Black and Hispanic poverty rate under Trump dropped to lowest in history
This fact should be common knowledge, 18 days away from the election, but it isn't. Why?
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From Poverty Rates for Blacks and Hispanics Reached Historic Lows in 2019, by John Creamer, U.S. Census Bureau, September 15, 2020. Excerpt:
Poverty rates declined between 2018 and 2019 for all major race and Hispanic origin groups.
Two of these groups, Blacks and Hispanics, reached historic lows in their poverty rates in 2019. The poverty rate for Blacks was 18.8%; for Hispanics, it was 15.7%. […]
The figure shows that for Blacks, the poverty rate of 18.8% in 2019 was the lowest rate observed since poverty estimates were first produced for this group for 1959. The previous low for this group was 20.8% in 2018.
Poverty rates in 2019 were also the lowest ever observed for Hispanics (15.7%), compared to the prior low of 17.6% in 2018. Poverty statistics for Hispanics date back to 1972.
Statistia: U.S. share living in poverty by race 1959-2022:
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